Last night ... about ten or eleven some one broke open the door, and they fired in on him and John McKenny got his gun and fired at them about that time John McKenny said I am shot first, I heard of Them they was at the window knocking and calling John ... They broke open the other front door, and shot another shot. John was lying down, then someone got a chair and commenced beating John McKinny with it, all the men I saw was colord, one of the men I saw was Masqual[?]

I saw them throw a ball of rags in the room it caught on fire [?] it struck the floor

I had a conversation with John McKenny on the 25th and he said if a croud of respectable white men would come to him and show him why he ought to be whipped, he would cross his his hands and take it, but he did not propose to be whipped by a croud of free negros, John McKenny has been on the loose[?] for a month ... a mob of men came to John McKennys house a hunting him at night about a month